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Thanks Doc, very much appreciated, and a good read from your links.

I've decided to go with a Thermaltake Dr Power II for PSU testing.

The mobo diagnostics will have to wait a while!

Hello all, long time no see!

I'm looking to invest in a power supply tester and possibly a motherboard diagnostic kit.

But I don't want to end up with something that is unreliable, so wondered...

You do realise that moving home is one of the most stressful things in life? :p

I was struggling with firefox bookmarks... then I found out where they were kept!

Found that simply copying the...

OK !

I guess I was hoping for a more "automatic" way of doing things, especially for favourites and bookmarks etc!

But thank you

Hello everyone

Basic situation is stormy weather has fried a motherboard (AMD) which had a hdd with win 7 Pro O/S installed.

I have plugged this hdd into another PC and copied all I could from...

This has worked perfectly :)

Sorry for the late reply I got distracted by Rugby and Beer and then work!

Just want to say thanks falcon2000, imgburn is the way to go with this, very...

Same error, cannot delete, access denied.

I've been looking and when I rc>properties of the vista folder created from the setup, "Read Only" has the box coloured as opposed to blank or checked...

Copied oscdimg.exe to folder C:\Windows\System32 (because that is the command line that loads by default using run>cmd)

Ran cmd as admin, back to the original error:
ERROR: Could not delete...

Hi Doc, thanks for the idea. The issue I am having is within pE tools, and I open that using the "run as administrator" option.

Using windows DOS Run, cmd, open as administrator, I get an error...

Yep, I load Windows PE Command prompt and (as per instructions on heidoc) enter "oscdimg –bC:\Vista\boot\etfsboot.com -h -lVISTA_EN_DVD -m -u2 C:\Vista\...

Which is why I said "While not a direct link to vista"

Quite simply, on the MS Answers website there is a link to Heidoc website list of win 7. On the heidoc website there is an internal link to...

I thought that site would be OK? While not a direct link to vista, the site is linked to from answers.microsoft.com when being pointed in the direction to win 7 from digital river!

Do you think...

Insidemylaptop is where I'd been to help me strip it down!

Many thanks for your efforts, its a case of wait and see now. And I have plenty of other pc's giving me grief/keeping me busy :cool:

Sorry dneilson, didn't get a notification of your reply!

Depends what the owner want to do now, he's on point of purchasing a new one, and I might end up with this one, so maybe I will give it a...

Trying to continue my learning!

I have been given an old PC which is missing its hard drive.

With a new hard drive I want to install Vista, but I don't have an installation disk.

I found...

In Acer Asprie 5520 laptop the CMOS battery soldered to the motherboard.

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:mad:

Ah well

Thanks for the quick responses...

Doc.. not what I wanted to hear!!! :( but you are probably right.

dneilson, haven't tried the cmos battery, will have to try and find it first!

I'll post...

Good evening folks, sorry if I'm interupting the superbowl!

I've just ventured into the world of Laptop hardware repair, and I'm not a fan:mad:

Basically I have an Acer 5520 which refuses to...

I agree that retail wont work with OEM coa.

I was/am prepared to purchase oem media along with some hardware that i actually need. Would that be questionable?



100% sure because of the...

I've literally within the last 6 hours aquired 2 i3 2nd gen PC's running win 7 Pro 64 bit. Bought at what I regard as a bargain price of �200 ($300?).

What I failed to check was the actual...

Unless its one of the atoms :D

Gotcha, thanks Doc. Gonna stick with the e5200 for now, wait for the i3 to drop in price!

Thanks for that link Doc, giving some good info (and triggering some more thought).

The whole story is now unraveling!

I'm currently using as my day to day a Dual Core E5200 (1302@Passmark)...

Indeed, but then from what I can see, the 600(T) series over here (what I can find, they're like rocking horse poop) seem to be oem, so would need a heatsink purchase on top, so not so far off in...

Thanks doc

Worthy of consideration, didn't turn up in my filtering, probably something I did or didn't do!

Looking to build an energy efficient PC for everyday use.

No Gaming or video processing.

Just wondering if anyone has experience of the intel g600 series, the low TDP ones such as the G645T...